Catholic Engagements with the Modern World, 1487-1918 profiles the teaching and practices of the Catholic Church in the modern era, covering the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the Enlightenment through the early 20th century.

Offering more than 1,700 monographs, the collection features many papal biographies, responses to the Protestant Reformation, treatises and criticisms of the Marian Doctrine, and the Catholic Church’s response to the social changes and secular philosophies that resulted from the Enlightenment.